Will your child be working throughout uni?

[henriettahugoharriet]

Thanks

[skyzumarubble]

Mine are too young - but I did. Worked in McDonald's was brilliant - great money, shifts to suit and ended up as a manager on more £

[Spottytop1]

Yes mine are. 1 going into 2nd year, the other into 3rd year.

[TurquoiseChevrotain]

@skyzumarubble - McDonald's isn't 'great money'

[FiveBoys]

Turquoise - in your opinion.

[TurquoiseChevrotain]

@FiveBoys - no, not really. I'm 18 and some of my friends who work there are on the worst wage out of all of us in part-time jobs.

[RJnomore1]

Yes.

[FiveBoys]

*@FiveBoys - no, not really. I'm 18 and some of my friends who work there are on the worst wage out of all of us in part-time jobs8

There's clearly a generation gap going on here and perhaps back in the day the money was good.

[Crispsheets]

Yes he has got a transfer with his weekend job he's had for 2 years and will be doing 12 hours a week. He'll get about £500 a month. Already got his Xmas shifts sorted.
We support him but he likes working and saving.

[Ta1kinPeece]

No
She has too many contact hours to hold down a job
but she does open days and the like
and works part time when home for holidays

[SauvignonBlanche]

Sadly, no, DS is going into his Third year of no term time job and is yet to have a holiday job.

He's applied for lots, but has AS and is yet to get his foot through the door.

[TurquoiseChevrotain]

@FiveBoys - in all fairness that's very true. My apologies

[Hugs4Everyone]

We didn't feel the need to teach them lessons according to the school of hard knocks

Blimey, working doesn't have to be a 'lesson'. My kids worked because they've enjoyed it. They've enjoyed earning their own money and they've generally enjoyed the actual work. They've had no financial need to work at all.

[Hugs4Everyone]

One of my D.C. was getting £10 an hour babysitting a lovely 8 year old lad this summer. He really enjoyed that job. 💰💰💰

[FiveBoys]

@FiveBoys - in all fairness that's very true. My apologies flowers

Thank you but there was no need for those lovely flowers. To be honest I think there are very few 18 year olds who'd think they were being paid enough for the graft they're putting in but by the same token maybe things aren't as good at McDonalds as they used to be,

[FiveBoys]

We didn't feel the need to teach them lessons according to the school of hard knocks

Blimey, working doesn't have to be a 'lesson'. My kids worked because they've enjoyed it. They've enjoyed earning their own money and they've generally enjoyed the actual work. They've had no financial need to work at all

Lovely.

[TurquoiseChevrotain]

@FiveBoys - all I know is I work in a supermarket and my friends who are at McDonald's earn 1/3 less. That just seems unfair, especially as it's such a big company. I'm glad you liked your job (if you worked there?)

[wannabestressfree]

Yes he does and he is also autistic. Works the 'close' for wetherspoons in the city he lives in. Has problems with sleep so it suits him. He earns really well and I am also a single parent- he is the eldest of three. He does help me out we are a family....

[dancetothemusic]

Yes but only in the holidays. Both have worked for 8 weeks very full time this summer and will work for a month in the Christmas break.
We pay accommodation but if they want fancy pants clothes and drinking money they have to fund themselves.

[Hugs4Everyone]

@FiveBoys

Aww thanks, it is lovely isn't it

[Bluntness100]

They better had, if they go, if they are going for a legit reason, not just to get on a 3 year piss up resulting in a load of debt they will never pay off like 90% of folk I know who have been!

You have to pass each year at uni to make it into the next year. Your first year is harder than a levels, your second year harder than the first and so on. I don't know what degrees the people you knew did. But it's not a three year piss up by any manner of means. Sure they have a social life, they are kids, but there is a huge amount of work involved in getting a degree also.

[FiveBoys]

@FiveBoys - all I know is I work in a supermarket and my friends who are at McDonald's earn 1/3 less. That just seems unfair, especially as it's such a big company. I'm glad you liked your job (if you worked there?)

So it just goes to show what a difference time can make to a situation. Did I work there? No. When I was a student going back more than 40 years ago it was very different to how it is now but I did work. I'd had wee part time jobs from the time I was about 12. I worked in the corner shop before I went to school each morning for 15 minutes, it was just around the corner from the house and I'd man the sweetie counter so people couldn't do a ram raid on the counter after they got off the bus. Then I'd also work there at the weekend packing up orders in the back shop for people who sent a list in every Saturday. I loved it. I may also have had a job when I was a bit older in our local fish and chip shop that I didn't love so much but I was able to pay for my mum and gran to have their hair done to cheer them up a few weeks after my grandad died. I was 15. I was so proud I could do that but now Im not so sure it was a good thing to be able to do.

Did I have to do it? No. I just liked doing it.

[FiveBoys]

@FiveBoys

Aww thanks, it is lovely isn't it wink

Im not sure what your wink means?

[holdthewine]

All of ours did time consuming courses with practical elements as well as study.

But they all worked in the holidays, mostly they went back to the same jobs. Not always full-time sometimes part-time.

It always looks good on your CV when applying for proper jobs as a graduate of you can show that you have held down regular work, doesn't matter what it is.

[PinkCrystal]

Yes both of mine work weekends for the extra money

[SerfTerf]

It's not allowed at DC1's uni, DC2 isn't going to uni, so will be working FT comparatively young, will have to wait to see for the others.